Hey Gang,
Man ,it never ends....Ive been trouble shootin all day...I got a new symptom discovery...NOW, Ive discovered that just playin a CD or a file, like a mixdown MP3, skips and pops.Cool edit doesnt even have to be involved....Yeah , when I bring up another window or minimize a window , it gets real bad..If I do it real fast like minimize, maximize it hangs, skips and pops???.Like its taxing the puter too much to play by doing that???..Yeah , when I try to load anything into cool edit , its real slow to load THEN of course , it skips and pops , and plays too slow...Boys Im down...Cant record, make lessons for my students, well I can , Ill have to go back to cassette multitrack which They''re DREADING..

..I checked the sound card drivers and they're fine..Both C and D HD's check out fine when I run the CHKDSK...When the audio is actin up , the CPU drain is still only like 5-8% so I dont think its RAM related???..Could this audio prob still be related to the HD drives?..I think Im the only one on the planet thats had these kinda of probs with this thing???...Yeah , Kramer thanks much for the tip..Ive not had anything to what I would call "porn" BUT, everyones def is different ..

...If anyone has any audio trouble shootin tips, please inform me what to do next ...Just to recap here, everytimes this thing boots, its been a different senerio???...Ive had the "disk failure" AND that "NTLHD is missing" this morning BUT, it booted OK a few hrs ago but now has the audio skip , hang , too slow, and wont run cool edit at all without major skips, too slow, pops etc...AND wont play a CD , audio file with out skippin, poppin if I move pages around...Any info regarding the prob would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John